Source BOKSBURG, SOUTH AFRICA, October 24, 2012 (thenewage.co.za): The Human Rights Commission (HRC) is investigating alleged racial and religious discrimination at a school in Boksburg while the teacher at the centre of the row has been suspended (see HPI: here). This follows complaints against a teacher at the Parkdene Primary School who has been accused of harassing a Grade 3…
Source AMRITSAR, INDIA, October 24, 2012 (Times of India): These days, the tiny Hindu community of Karachi in Pakistan is buzzing with the songs eulogizing Lord Rama and stories of his valor are being enacted in the Ramleelas being staged at the Swami Narayan temple.The Ramleela is being organized by Naryana Sewa Garaba Mandal and Pakistan Hindu Seva Welfare Trust…
Source DENPASAR, BALI, INDONESIA, October 26, 2012 (AP): An archaeologist says a structure that is believed to be the remains of an ancient Hindu temple has been unearthed on Indonesia’s resort island of Bali. Wayan Swantika of the local archaeology agency says workers digging a drainage basin last week in eastern Denpasar, Bali’s capital, at first discovered a large stone…
Source “Learn to make the whole world your own. No one is a stranger, my child, the whole world is your own.”— Sri Sarada Devi (1853-1920) wife of Sri Ramakrishna
Source THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, INDIA, October 24, 2012 (IANS): Thousands of tiny tots took the first step into the world of letters, through the ceremony called Vidyarambham (beginning of knowledge) when they wrote the first letters of the Malayalam alphabet on sand or rice with the help of academics, litterateurs, teachers and politicians Wednesday. Temples, institutions, clubs, media houses and even churches…
Source THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, KERALA, INDIA, October 24, 2012 (Press Trust of India): Congress Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) today termed as “unconstitutional” the Kerala government’s move to make it mandatory for Hindu members of the legislative assembly (MLAs) to declare that they “believe in God” in order to vote for nominees to temple boards. (The move would prevent the CPI-M MLAs from…
Press Trust of India DHAKA/KATHMANDU, October 24, 2012 (Press Trust of India): Thousands of Hindu devotees poured on to the streets of Bangladesh on Wednesday joining processions of Goddess Durga, to mark the culmination of four days of revelry and celebration on Vijay Dashmi. Wearing colorful attires, beating drums and chanting mantras, jubilant devotees celebrated with gusto before immersing statues…
Source To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man’s injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man’s superior. Has she not greater intuition, is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater powers of…
Source FLORIDA, U.S., October 15, 2012 (Huffington Post, by Vasudha Narayanan): Formal, printed invitations in previous years, and now e-vites start coming in September to announce the coming of the festival of Navratri (literally, “nine nights”). The invitations, issued by those whose original home is or was in parts of South India, are printed in women’s names, and announce gatherings…
Source CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA, October 15, 2012 (sfgate.com): Organizers estimated more than 10,000 people attended the tenth annual Diwali celebration Saturday in Cupertino’s Memorial Park. Diwali, the festival of lights, is one of the most important Hindu celebrations in India and has become more popular in the United States in recent years. Visitors came from around the Bay Area to celebrate…